Document jacketing and encoding machine



Sept 17, 1957 E. M. s. McwHlRTER 2,806,335,

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DOCUMENT JACKETING AND ENCODING MACHINE Sept. 17, 1957 Filed Mazvch 24.1954 ATTORNEY United States Patent Op DUCUIVIENT JACKETING AND ENCODINGMACHINE Application March 24, 1954, Serial No. 418,441

17 Claims. (Cl. Sli- 78) This invention relates to a machine forpreparing documents for automatic processing.

To process information inscribed upon documents by mechanical andelectrical methods, it is necessary to provide the information in such aform that it can be read by automatic methods. Documents pertaining toordinary commercial and industrial transactions are, in general,originated by the normal manual means of writing or typewriting, and assuch, the information inscribed is not in a suitable form for automaticinterpretation by the present well known methods, such a mechanical,electrical, or photoelectrical scanning.

In addition to processing of the information, it is necessary, in manycases, for the document itself to be processed, particularly Where itconstitutes a legal instrument, as in the case of checks drawn on bankaccounts.

Thus, although methods of translating from written information intoelectrical impulses suitable for application to automatic processingequipment are well known, for example, in a teleprinter machine, suchmethods do not permit the document itself to be automatically processed.

Punched card techniques, by inscribing the information twice, once innormal written characters and secondly by holes punched in codeconformation, ll the requirement and also enable the document to beintelligible to human senses as well as capable of automatic processing,both as regards the information and the document. As documents, theysuffer from the disadvantages `of rigid requirement as to size and arerendered unserviceable to the machine if folded or torn in the humanhandling stages; In addition, the necessity for the dual methods ofinscribing the information on the one document constitutes a restrictionupon the amount of information that can be either Written or encoded.

It is one of the objects of the present invention to provide a machinewhich can take documents of any size, within reasonably variabledimensions, and provide them with jackets or wrappers of fixeddimensions upon which are encoded the information contained upon thedocument in a form suitable for automatic processing methods.

Another object of the invention is to provide a machine,- as defined inthe paragraph above, which will display first one sideof the document tothe observer and then the other side.

Another object of the invention is to provide a machine, as defined inthe two paragraphs above, which permit an operator to apply thenecessary information in coded form to the jacket and document assemblyand then display the encoded information simultaneously with the displayof the document to permit the operator to check the accuracy of theencoded information.

The above mentioned and other features and objects of this invention andthe manner of attaining them will become more apparent and the inventionitself will be best understood by reference to the following descriptionof an embodiment of the invention taken in conjunction with theaccompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the outside of a machine incorporatingthe invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a jacket which may be used with the invention;

Fig. 3 is an end view of the jacket shown in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the machine with portions of the frameremoved and portions of the mechanism broken away or removed toillustrate the construction and operation of the various parts of themachine;

Fig, 5 is a perspective view of a portion of the mechanism;

Fig. 6 is a circuit diagram of the electrical control circuit for themachine; and

Fig. 7 is a timing chart showing the timing of the operation of thevarious moving parts of the machine.

ln the embodiment of my invention hereafter described the machinecomprises means responsive to the operation of a key for feeding onejacket at a time from a collection of jackets and delivering said jacketto a jacket loading position, means controlled by the jacket feedingmeans for feeding one document at a time from a collection of documentsand inserting said documents in a jacket positioned at said loadingposition, first jacket moving means for moving a loaded jacket from saidloading position to a iirst inspection position with one side of thejacket visible from the front of the apparatus, second jacket movingmeans, controlled by the operation of the key, for moving the jacketfrom the first inspection position to a second inspection position andreversing the position of the jacket, so that the other side is visibleto the operator, manually operable key means for earmarking said jacket,for example by applying indicia to the jacket or to a strip of sheetmaterial carried by the jacket to represent information appearing on thedocument carried by the jacket, means for automatically reading theindicia, means controlled by the reading means for displaying theindicia so read, whereby the applied information may be compared with`that on said document, and third jacket mov- -ing means controlled bythe rst key means for moving the jacket from the second inspectionposition to a receptacle provided for that purpose.

The invention may be used with any form of document, 'such as salestickets, credit or debit tickets, stock room cards, payroll ticketsVetc., but in the present disclosure, the invention has been described inconnection with bank checks. These vary considerably in Width, length,and thickness, but in general fall within certain broad maximum andminimum limits of dimensions.

The jacket 1 in which the checks are placed by the machine of theinvention may be similar to those shown in my application, Serial No.418,394, filed of even date herewith and entitled Document Carrier forMechanized Processing. A preferred form of this jacket is shown in Figs.2 and 3. It consists of two rectangular sheets 2 and 3, preferably ofcellulose acetate, which are held in slightly spaced relation by meansof spacers 4, 5 and 6. Spacers 4 and 6 are at opposite side edges of thesheets 2 and 3, While spacer 5 is positioned a short distance fromspacer 4. Spacer 6 extends the full length of the sheet and its innerends are curved as shown. Spacer 4 is shorter than the plates 2 and 3and its inner edge is curved at its ends. Spacer 5 is also'shorter thanthe plates 2 and 3 and has both of its edges'curved so that it comes toa point at each end.

The plates 2 and 3 and the spacers 5 and 6 define an envelope in which acheck is adapted -to be inserted; the spacers 4 and 5 together with theplates 2 and 3 define an envelope much narrower in Width in which apaper strip may be inserted which carries the coded indicia relative tothe Written information on the check, which coded indicia is applied ina manner which will be explained later. The curved ends of the spacers4, 5 and 6 permit easy access for the check and indicia strip.

At the left end of the plate 2, as viewed in Fig. 2, midway between thespacers and 6, I provide a slot 7, extending from the end of the plateto a portion adjacent the center. A- similar slot 8 may be provided inthe right end of the other plate 3. A short slot 9 may also be providedbetween the spacers 4 and 5 'm the plate 2, adjacent the left endthereof, and a similar slot 10 may be provided in the plate 3 at theother end thereof.

The arrangements of the slots 7, 8, 9 and 10 make the jacket symmetricalwith respect to the ends thereof so that it may be turned end for endand present the same slot arrangement. The purpose of these slots willbe explained hereinafter.

Referring now to Figs. 1, 4, 5 and 6, the machinecomprises a framehaving a table portion 16, in front of which an operator may sit, and ahousing 17 which encloses the various parts of the apparatus. The table16 may be provided with a keyboard 18 having a plurality of keys 19, bymeans of which the operator can code the desired information, andincluding a clear key 20 and a perforate key 21, the purpose of whichwill be Vdescribed later. In the housing 17, facing the operator, is awindow 22 in which the reverse side of the check is displayed at a rstinspection position, and somewhat to the left thereof, another window 23in which the face of the check will be displayed at a later time in thecycle at a second inspection position.

As the right end of the housing, as viewed in Fig. l, a magazine orcompartment 24 is provided to receive a quantity of checks, called ablock The checks of each block may be those having some commonidentification, as for example, sequential account numbers. A block ofchecks is placed in the magazine 24 with the checks standing on edge andtheir faces towards the rear of the machine. The checks may be held in acompact group by tensioning devices 26 which are arranged to maintain apredetermined tension on the block, as checks are removed one by onefrom the rear thereof.

A magazine 27 for jackets 1 is also provided within the housing 17 at aposition to the rear of the window 22 and somewhat above the upper levelof the window. The jackets 1 are adapted to be stacked in the magazine27 in the same manner that they are shown in Fig. 2 with the spacers Y4and 5 towards the front of the machine.

The jackets are adapted to be withdrawn successively from the bottom Vofthe stack, and a guide 28 is provided forward ofthe stack of. jacketswhich extends downwardly far enough to prevent all jackets except thelowermost one from being moved forward.

Power is supplied to the machine .by two motors 29 and 30 which areadapted to run continuously, as long as the main switch (not shown) isturned on. Although two motors have been shown for convenience in thedrawings, it will be understood that a single motor might be used todrive the several parts of the machine.

In order to moveV the lowermost jacket of the stack in the magazine 27,I provide a pair of endless belts 31 which are parallelly arranged andupon which the stack of jackets rests. `The belts 31 are driven from ashaft 32 suitably journaled in bearings 33 at the ends thereof, the rearloops of the belts passing over this shaft. The belts are supported atthe forward end of the loops by means of a shaft 35 journaled inbearings 36.

The shaft 32 is provided with a clutch 40 (shown more clearly in Fig. 5)which is positioned between the shaft 32 and a gear 41 which meshes witha gear 42 attached to a bevel gear 43 which in turn meshes with a bevelgear 44 attached to a shaft 45 driven by the motor 30. The shaft 32 andVtherefore the belts 31 will be driven only when the clutch is operated.The clutch 40 is an electrically operated clutch and its control will beexplained later. Y

The belts 31 are provided with cleats 46, the purpose of which is topush one of the jackets from the bottom 4 of the stack when the beltsare moved in the direction of the arrows. Y

A micro-switch 47 is positioned adjacent the shaft 35 where one of thebelts 31 passes over it and is arranged in such a position that thecleats 46 will engage it and cause it to operate. This switch is used tostop the movement of the belts 31 in a manner to be later described.

When a jacket has moved a distance of its width forward it is in theinsertion position where the check is to be inserted. At this time thecleat 46, immediately in front of the jacket, will have turned aroundthe shaft 35 and will have operated the switch 47 to stop the movementof the belts 31 by opening the clutch 40. A group of several pneumatictubes 37 are provided terminating just above the jacket in the fcheckinsertion position, and a cooperating group of pneumatic tubes 38 areprovided just below the jacket. These pneumatic tubes are connected to apneumatic tube control device 39 which is energized in a manner to belater described and which when energized produces a suction in the tubesto separate the sheets 2 and 3 of the jacket to assist in the insertionof the check. This pneumatic mechanism is well known in the art and neednot be described in detail.

At this time the mechanism which feeds the check into the jacketcommences to operate and will now be described.

Immediately to the rear of the check magazine 24 and substantially on alevel with the lower edges of the checks in the block I provide a pairof belts 48 which are arranged to rotate inthe direction of the arrowsby means of shafts 49 and 50, journaled in bearings 51. Only one of eachof these bearings for shaft 49 has been shown. The belts 48 are drivenby means of a gear S3 which meshes with a gear 54 attached to the shaft50. The gear 53 is mounted on a shaft 55 which is in alignment with theshaft 4S and is connected to that shaft by means of a clutch 56. Thearrangement is such that, when the clutch 56 is operated, the shaft 45drives the shaft 55 and therefore the shaft 50 through gears 53 and 54,and by means of shaft 50 the belts 48 are driven.

An auxiliary shaft 57 is mounted directly above the shaft 50 and isprovided at its end with a gear 58 which meshes with the gear 54, sothat when the shaft 50 is driven, the shaft 57 is also driven in theopposite direc tion. The shafts 50 and 57 therefore act as rollers whichwill grasp a check and drive it towards the left of the machine if acheck is inserted between these two members while they are operating. Inorder to drive a check more eiciently the shafts 50 and 57 may be coatedwith rubber or other resilient material.

The belts 48 may also be provided with cleats 59 arranged at suchpositions on the belt as to act to push a check laid upon the movingbelt towards *the rollers 50 and 57. A groove 60 is provided in theupper roller 57 at the place whereV the belt 48 passes between therollers so as to permit the cleat 59 to pass therebetween.

The checks are delivered one at a time to the belts 48 by well knownpneumatic apparatus. Thus, a pneumatic tube 61 is mounted for arcuatemovement between the belts 48 under control of a pneumatic dispensercontrol apparatus 62 which causes the tube to engage the face of therearmost Vcheck and, because of suction applied to the tube, draw itface downwards upon the belts 48 as the tube swings downwardly. Thecontrol apparatus 62 is operated vsimultaneously with Y the pneumatic'tube control device 39 in a manner which `will be described later.

A micro-switch 65 is positioned just below the roller 50 adjacenttheplace where one of the belts 48 passes over it, and this'micro-switchisvarranged to be contacted by one of the cleats 59, so as to operatethe switch. This switch is used toarrest the Vmovement of the belts 48by releasing the clutch 56 in a manner vto be described later.

After the check hasl left the rollers 5,0 and 57, it is still notentirely within the jacket. and in order to insure complete insertion, Iprovide a small wheel 50 (Fig. 5 mountedV on the end of a bodily movableshaft 5'1 which is parallel to the shaft 55. The shaft 51' is mounted ina bracket 52 which has an arcuate slot 53 having a radius of curvatureequal to the distance of the shaft 51 from the shaft 55. The shaft 51also carries gears 54' and 56': which mesh with gears 55 and 53 attachedto the shaft 55.

When the shaft 55 is driven it drives the shaft 51 which thereupon`moves upwardly in the slotted bracket 52 until the wheel 50 is in theslot 8 in the plate 3 of the jacket 1. The n'm of the wheel 5,0' may berubber coated so as to frictionally engage the check and move itentirely into the jacket after it leaves the rollers 50 and 57. Aftertheshaft 55 has stopped, the shaft 51 returns to its normal position,either by gravity or urged by a suitable spring, not shown. j

Iustforward of the shaft 35 andof the insertion position of the jacket Iprovide a mechanism for carrying the .jacket forward and turning itdownward, so that it will appear vertically positioned in front of thewindow 22 in the first inspection position. The manner of accomplishingthis will now be described.

A pair of shafts -66 and 67 are mounted parallel to each other and tothe shaft 35 in a pair of brackets 68. A pair of endless belts 69 aremounted over these shafts and rotate with the shafts. The shaft 66 maybe positioned slightly below the shaft .35 or slightly in front of itbut has no driving connection with the shaft 35'. The shaft 66 is notonly rotatably mounted in the brackets 68 but is also mounted for bodilymovement in a horizontal plane. To accomplish this, each of the brackets68 is provided with a horizontal groove 70 and a bearing member 71 ispositioned in each of the grooves 70 and carries one end of the shaft 66in a freely rotatable manner. The bearings 71 can slide in the grooves70 without interfering with the rotation of shaft 66 but permittingshaft 66 to move bodily forward and backward in theV groove.

Each of the brackets A68 is also provided with a vertical groove 72 inwhich bearing members 73 may slide,

these bearing members being the bearings for the shaft ing members 73for the shaft 6,7 are urged upwardly by means of compression springs 75.With this arrangement the bearings 73 for the shaft 67 may be forceddownwardly against the tension of the springs 75 which will cause theshaft 66 and the supporting bearing members 71 to move forwardly in thegrooves 76 against the tension of springs'v74. When the force urging thebearing members 73 downwardly is removed, both shafts will return to thepositions shown in the drawings.

The bearing members 73 are urged downwardly by means of av=crank arm 76attached to the shaft 77 of an auxiliary motor 78. The crank arm 76bears against a horizontal lever 79 which is attached to one of thebearing members 73. The lever 79 does not rotate, but merely moves downas the crank arm 76 slides over it. The shaft 67 is provided-with apinion gear 80 which meshes with a rack 81 arranged vertically, so thatwhenever the shaft67 is forced downwardly, it will cause the pinion 80to rotate along the rack 81, thereby rotating the shaft 67. In thismanner, when the motor 78 causes the shaft 67 to move downwardly, itwill rotate and drive the belts 69. This action will cause the jacketcarried by the'y belts 69 to tilt downwardly, `so that it willeventually slide olf of the belts y69 ina near vertical position. Thebelts 69 may also be provided with cleats S2 which act to urge a jacketforward which has been deposited upon the belts 69. y 4 Y Immediatelybelow the shaft 67 is a jacket holder 83 which is adaptedv to catch'theljacket las it falls from theV belts 69.' The holder 83 comprises fourchannel mem' bers 84, 85, 86 and 87 mounted on a shaft 88 which isvertically supported in the frame 15. The holder 83 is arranged to berotated intermittently under the control of the clear key 20 in a mannerlater to be described, the holder making one-quarter turn in acounter-clockwise direction each time the clear key is depressed. Whenat rest the holder is Vso positioned that one of the channel members 84through 87 is substantially under and slightly forward of the shaft 67.A pair of baffle plates 89 are arranged just below the shaft 67, so asto guide a jacket falling from the belts 69 into the slot in whicheverone of the channel members 84 to S7 that happens to be in position toreceive it.

The shaft 8S is driven from a shaft 90 through a clutch member 91. Theshaft 90 is in turn driven from the motor 29 by means of a gear trainconsisting of a gear 92 meshing with a pinion 93 attached to anauxiliary shaft 94- which is geared to the motor shaft 9S by means ofgears 96 and 97, the former being attached to the shaft 94 and thelatter to the shaft 95. The clutch 91 is operated in a manner to belater described and is released by means of a micro-switch 93 which isengaged by one of the channel members and causes the holder to stop inthe proper position.

At the left side of the holder S3, as viewed in Fig. 4, a channel member165 is positioned, so as to be aligned with one of the channel members84 to 87 when the holder 83 is at rest. This channel member 105 is atthe second inspection position for the jacketed document and the window23 in the housing 17 is directly in front of it, so that the document isvisible through the window when the jacket is in the channel member 165.

in order to move a jacket from one of the channel members of the holder33 onto the channel member 10S, I provide a pusher linger 196 mountedupon a shaft 107 and extending diametrically from the top of the shaft.The shaft 107 is driven from a shaft 198 through a clutch member 109which is operated in a manner to be described and released by means of amicro-switch 11@ which is engaged by a cleat 111 attached to the shaft197 in such a position that it engages the switch in order to stop thepusher finger 166 in a position which may be substantially parallel tothe adjacent channel member hoider 83 and extending in the direction ofthe holder. When the shaft 167 is rotated in a counter-clockwisedirection, the pusher finger 106 will engage a jacket resting in thechannel member on the left side of the shaft 3S, as seen from the frontof the machine, and will push it out of the holder member onto thechannel still standing in an upright position.

lt will be noted that when a jacket is in a channel member 1%5, it isstanding in an upright position with a document toward the top of thejacket and the envelope formed by the spacers 4 and 5 at the bottom.While in this position the operator may apply coded indicia to thejacket representing information which appears on the face of thedocument. In the embodiment shown, this indicia is applied to a paperstrip which is then inserted in the space between the spacers 4 and 5 ofthe jacket 1. This is accomplished in the following manner:

A roll of paper 112 is mounted horizontally below and to the left of thejacket in the channel member 1515 and parailel to the plane thereof, theWidth of the paper in the roll being equal to the length of the strip ofpaper which is to be inserted in the jacket. The sheet of paper 113 fromthe roll is fed through rollers 114 which force the end of the papersheet up between two plates 115 and 116 where it is in position forhaving the coded indicia. applied to it. The rollers 114 are driven fromthe shaft 88 which supports the holder 83 by means of a gear train whichincludes a gear 117 mounted on the forward `one of the rollers 114 whichmeshes with a gear 119 attached to a shaft 120 extending horizontallyparallel to the plane of the jacket in the channel 105 and which has apinion gear 121 at its otherV `l end. The pinion 121 meshes with apnion'122 attached to a bevel gear 123.whioh in turn meshes with a bevelgear 124 attached to the shaft A88. When the shaft 88 rotates to rotatethe holder 83 the shaft 120 is rotated and rotates the rollers 114 toroll a portion of the sheet of paper 113 upwardly between the plates 115and 116, so that when the holder 83 has been brought to rest, the end ofthe sheet of paper 113 is positioned between the plates 115 and 116.

The manner in which the coded indicia representing the information onthe lcheck applied to the end of this paper sheet will now be explained.

As has already been stated, the keyboard 18 carries a plurality of keys19. These are arranged in vertical rows, there being one row for eachrow of coded elements to be applied to the paper strip. Suitable paperpunching elements, indicated at 125, are provided mounted on the plate116 and are arranged to be set by the manipulation of the keys 19. Thepunching mechanism has not been disclosed in detail, since any wellknown punching mechanism may be used for this purpose. It is sufficientto state that the punching mechanism may be set by the keys before theactual punching step is performed. An error key 126 may be provided tobreak down the setting of the punches if an error has been detected inthe setting before the actual punching takes place.

The plate 115 is stationary and has at its lower edge a knife edge 127.The plate 116 is movable towards and away from the plate 115, beingcontrolled by two magnets 128 which when energized pull the plate 116towards the plate 115. The lower edge of the plate 116 cooperates withthe knife edge 127 to cut off a strip 129 of the paper sheet 113 whichis then free to be inserted in the jacket which is then standing in thechannel member 105. At the same time the movement of the plate 116 willcause the actual punching of the strip in accordance with the setting ofthe punching mechanism by manipulation of the keys 19.

The magnets 128 are controlled by the perforate key 21 in a manner laterto be described. As soon as the strip 129 has been severed from thesheet 113 and the punching completed, the magnets 128 release in amanner later to be des-cribed and a plate 130 is caused to move .bymeans of a magnet 131 to push the strip 129 against Va movable belt 132which is arranged parallel to the strip, riding over a driving shaft 133arranged vertically parallel to the strip and an auxiliary shaft 134arranged parallel to the shaft 133. The shaft 133 is provided at itslower end with a bevel gear 135 which meshes with a bevel gear 136connected to a horizontal shaft 137. The shaft 137 is driven from theshaft 95 under control of a clutch 138 the driven member of which isattached to the s haft 137, while the driving member -is attached -to ashaft 137' terminating in a bevel gear 139 meshing with a lbevel gear140 attached to the shaft 95.

Normally, rotation of the shaft 95 does not cause rotation of the shaft137, but when clutch 138 is operated, shaft 137 will rotate, causing therotation of shaft 133 and the rotation of the belt 132 to cause thepaper strip 129 to move towards the right of the machine, as viewed fromthe front.

A photoelectric cell 141 is provided at the right hand end of the Vpaperstrip 129, as viewed from the front of the machine. With the paper4strip in position, light from a source (not shown) will fall upon thephotoelectric cell and thus will permit the strip to be moved in amanner yto be later described. If there is no paper in position, lightwill fall upon the photoelectric cell 141 and `the .clutch 138 will beprevented from operating, so that the belt 132 will not be driven.

Pneumatic tubes 145 are provided attached to the channel Amember 105with their ends adjacent the portion of the jacket 1 between the spacermembers4 and 5. The purpose of these pneumatic tubes is the same asalready explained in Connectinnwith vthetubes 37 and 38 which separatethe two plates 2 and 3 of the jacket in the check insertingw position. Apneumatic tube control mechanism `146 operates to apply suction to thesides 2 and 3 of the jacket and thus to draw them apart in a knownmanner, so that the paper strip 129 may be forced by the moving belt 132into the space in the jacket between the two sides 2 and 3 land betweenthe spacers 4 and 5. A roller (not shown) similar to the roller 50 maybe caused to contact the strip through the slot 9 to insure the stripmoving into the proper position within the jacket after the belt 132 hasceased to engage it.

After the strip 129 is positioned in the jacket it is very desirable toprovide a means for the operator to check the information she has keyedas coded indicia onto the paper strip 129 against the actual informationon the face of the check in the jacket. In order to accomplish this aphotoelectric read 147 is provided at the left end of the channel member105, as viewed from in front of the machine, which reads off theinformation which has been punched in the paper strip as the strip isadvanced into the jacket. This photoelectric read lhas not beendisclosed in detail, since it may be any well known type of readingapparatus for reading off information punched onto a paper strip.Windows 148 may be provided in a portion of the housing 17 just belowthe window 23 where the face of document appears. Suitable displayapparatus is incorporated in the photoelectric read mechanism 147 todisplay the information read off from the paper strip. The operator maythen look at the face of the check appearing in the window 23 andcompare it with the displayed information set up in the windows 148 inorder to determine whether she has keyed up the proper information. Ifthe information is wrong, she may remove the entire jacket by opening adoor 149 immediately above the window 23. If the information is correct,she can depress the clear key 20 again which will cause the jacket to beremoved from its position in the channel member 105.

In order to remove a jacket from the channel member 105, I provide apair of vertically arranged movable belts 150 which are continuous loopsand which pass around shaft at the lower ends and an auxiliary shaft 151at the upper ends. The shaft 151 is parallel to the shaft 120 andsuitably journalled in bearings 152. The belts are provided with alignedcleats 153 which catch the lower edge of a jacket in the channel member105 and raise it as the belts move. The channel member 105 is suitablycut away to provide for the movement of the belts 150 and cleats 153.Another shaft 154 is provided parallel to the shaft 151 and spaced tothe rear thereof in a horizontal plane. This shaft is also suitablymounted in bearing members 155. Belts 156 which are continuous loops arepassed around the two shafts 151 and 154 and are caused to move by therotation of the shaft 151 which is in turn caused to move by therotation of the shaft 120. The belts 156 are also provided with cleats157 which are for the purpose of pushing a jacket which falls upon thebelts 156. As the jacket is moved upwardly by the movement of belts 150,the upper edge thereof engages a pair of guide members 158 which causeit to lean toward the rear and eventually fall upon the belts 156. Thecleats 157 then cause it to move along with the belts 156 to fall overthe shaft 154 and be deposited upon a stack of jackets 159 which havealready passed through the machine. Suitable guides I160 and 161 may beprovided to cause a falling jacket to align itself properly with thosealready in the stack.

The entire machine is electrically operated under control of the twokeys, already referred to, the clear key 20 and the perforate key 21.The electrical circuit for controlling the machine is shown in Fig. 6and will now be explained.

The clear key 20 has two movable springs 165 and 166 and each isconnected to positive battery, indicated, respectively at1 67 and A168.The spring 165 has amake contact and break contact, as does also thespring 166. When the key 20 is depressed, positive battery at 167 isconnected over the make contact of spring 165, through the winding of arelay A and a resistance R1, to negative battery. The relay A is shuntedby a condenser 169 making it slow to release.

The relay A has two make contacts. Contact a1 closes a circuit for theclutch 40, as indicated in the lower portion of Fig. 6, which clutch, itwill be remembered, controls the operation of the shaft 32 and belts 31,so that the belts 31 start to move towards the front of the machine andcause the removal of one of the jackets 1 from the jacket magazine 27.

The second make contact a2 of relay A prepares a locking circuit for therelay from the break contact of spring 165 of the clear key 20 to themake contact thereof through break contact of micro-switch 47. Theswitch 47 is operated at the instant of depressing the key, since thebelts 31 are stationary, with one of the cleats 46 in contact with theswitch 47. Therefore this locking circuit is opened at the break contactof the switch 47 before the clear key 20 is depressed. However, upon thestart of the movement of belts 31, one of the cleats 46 will leave theswitch 47 and cause it to release, thus closing its break contact andcompleting the locking circuit for relay A when the clear key isreleased and spring 165 touches its break contact again.

Also, when the clear key 20 is depressed, positive potential from thesource 168 is applied over the make contact of spring 166, through thewinding of relay B and resistance R2, to negative battery, thus causingthe operation of relay B. Relay B is shunted by a condenser 170 makingit slow to release.

Relay B has three make contacts. Make contact b1 closes a circuit forclutch 91 which connects the shaft 88 of holder 83 with the drivemechanism and causes it to rotate in a counterclockwise direction.

Make contact b2 prepares a locking circuit for relay B which includesthe break contact of micro-switch 98. Micro-switch 98 is shown in itsunoperated position. However, before the clear key 20 is depressed, thismicro-switch will be operated, since the holder 83 is in a stationaryposition with one of the channel members acting upon the switch. Whenthe holder 83 starts to operate, as it does when clutch 91 operates,micro-switch 98 is released and the locking circuit for relay B iscompleted over the break contact thereof when the clear key is releasedand positive source 168 is connected to make contact b2 over the breakcontact of spring 166.

Make contact b3 closes a circuit for the photoelectric read mechanism147 to clear whatever has been displayed in the windows 148.

As soon as the belts 31 have moved a distance sufficient to bring theiirst jacket into the check-inserting position, one of the cleats 46operates the micro-switch 47. This opens the locking circuit for therelay A at the break contact of the switch and that relay releases. WhenitA does so, it further opens its locking circuit at make contact a2,and it opens the circuit for clutch 40 at make contact al. When theclutch 40 releases, shaft 32 stops the belts 31 stop, with one of thecleats 46 in engagement with the switch 47, holding it operated.

The switch 47 operates before make contact a2 opens, whereupon positivepotential from source 167 is connected through the break contact ofspring 165, make contact a2, make contact of switch 47, winding of relayC, to negative battery.

Relay C has four make contacts. Makecontact c1 operates Iclutch 56 which.starts shaft 55 rotating, and also rollers 50 and 57 and the belts 48through the: gears 53, 54 and 58. The rotation of shaft 55 also causesthe pinion 54 to move the shaft 51 bodily within its slotted `bracket52', so as to causeY the wheel 50 to extend through the slot 8 in thejacket to engage the check as it passes from the rollers 50v and 57. f

' position.

t Make contact c2 closes a circuit through the pneumatic dispensercontrol device 62 which causes the rear-most check in the block ofchecks to be removed and placed upon the belts 48. Thus, a check isstarted -in the direction of the rollers 50 and 57, urged along by thecleats 49.

1Make contact c3 closes a circuit which operates the pneumatic tubecontrol mechanism which sucks lagainst the sides of the jacket in thecheck-inserting position land thus causes the sides 2 and 3 of thejacket to open and provide an ample space for the check to tbe inserted.

Make contact c4 closes Ia locking circuit for the relay C. During thetime that the belts 48 are at rest, one of the cleats 59 is inengagement with micro-switch 65 causing the break contact thereof to beopened, which would normally prevent the closing of the locking circuitthrough relay C. However, when the belts 48 start to move, the cleat 59leaves the switch 65, so that it releases, and therefore, when the makecontact c4 closes, the locking circuit -is complete.

When the relay B operates clutch 91, the holder 83 starts to operate ina clockwise direction, .as has already been stated. As soon as itIleaves its position of rest, switch 98 releases in order to completethe locking circuit for relay B. However, when the holder has turnedthrough so that another one of the channel members 84 to 87 reaches theswitch 98, the switch is operated Iagain, thus closing a circuit forrelay D from positive source 168 through break contact of spring 166 ofclear key 20, make contact b2, make contact of switch 98, winding ofrelay D, to negative battery. At the same time that switch 98 operatesit breaks the holding circuit through relay B -at its break contact, andthis relay rcleases, releasing clutch 91 and stopping the holder 83.

The relay D has three make contacts. Make contact d1 closes a circuit tooperate clutch 109 which causes the shaft 107 t-o operate and the pusherfinger 106 to push a jacket which may be in the channel arm of theholder 83 towards the left and into the channel member 105.

AMake contact d2 closes a circuit for the motor 78 which causes themotor shaft 77 to rotate and the crank arm 76 to push the shatt 67downwardly, at the same time moving the belts 69 forwardly to tilt anyjacket positioned upon the belt, so that it will fall int-o one of the'channel arms of the holder 83, where it will Istand in an uprightposition which represents the iirst inspection position and where itwill `be visible through the window 22 provided in the housing.

Make contact d3 closes -a locking circuit for the relay D. When thepusher iinger 106 is at rest, micro-switch 110 is engaged by the cleat111 and is therefore operated. In this condition the locking circuit forrelay D is opened at the break contact of switch 110, 'but as soon asthe pusher linger 106 starts to move, the microswitch 110 is releasedwhich closes the locking circuit for the relay D.

In the normal operation of the machine, the operator will first depressthe clear key 20. Then she will examine the reverse side of ya check inthe first inspection Then she will examine the face of the check in thesecond inspection position and depress the code keys 19 to set up thecoded indicia. Then she .will depress the perforate key 21 and l'comparethe information which then `appears in the windows 148 with theinformation on the face of the check. If the two agree, she will depressthe clear key 20 `again and the scycle repeats. The time chart shown inFig. 7 illustrates the timing of Iall of the important elements of themachine.

When the machine -is first started, the operator will depress the clearkey 20 -three separate times before a jacket will appear in the channelmember which is the second inspection position. She will then depressthe keys for applying the coded indicia to the paper strip, and whenthese have `been depressed, she will press the perforate key 21, movingspring 171 which is cou-A nected to a source of positive battery,indicated at172. Upon pressing the perforate key 21, the source ofpotential 171 -is connected through the make lcontact of spring169,'througha break contact f1 of a relay F, the winding of a relay E,resistance R3, to negative battery. The winding of relay E is shunted bya condenser 173 to make it slow in releasing.

The relay E has two make contacts. Make contact e1 c loses a circuit forthe operation of magnets 128 which contr-ol the cutting olf of the paper'strip 129 and the perforation thereof by the punching mechanism 125.

Make contact ke2 closes a circuit for the first winding of a two-windingrelay F from a positive source of potential, indicated at 174, throughthe make contact e2.

Relay F has two make contacts. Make contact f1 closes a circuit throughthe second winding of the relay F and the make contact of spring 171 ofthe perforate key 21, while that key is still operated.

Contact f2 closes a locking circuit for the relay F, provided thephotoelectric cell 141 is not operated; in yother words, provided thereis paper between the photoelectric cell 141 and its cooperating lightsource. In order to accomplish this purpose the photoelectric cell 141is connected to an amplifier 175 which has its output connected inseries with a battery 176 across a relay G having one make contact g1 inthe locking circuit of relay F. When there is a sheet of paper betweenthe photoelectric cell 141 and its associated light source, the relay Gwill not be operated and therefore the contact g1 will be opened andthere will be no locking circuit for tihe relay F. 1f, however, there isno paper between the photoelectric cell 141 and its as-sociated light`source the photoelectric cell will operate which will operate the relayG, thus providing a locking circuit for the relay F.

When the relay F operates, it opens the operating circuit for relay E atbreak contact f1 and this relay releases. At make contact e1 the relay Ereleases the magnet 128, so that the perforating mechanism and knifeedge cutter arrangement are restored to their normal condition. At thesame time, the break contact e2 completes a circuit for a relay H frompositive poten-tial source 177 through make contact g1, make contact f2,break contact e2, Winding of relay H, to negative battery.

Relay H has three make contacts. Make contact h1 closes a circuit forclutch 138 which causes movement of the belt 132 through the gear trainincluding shaft 133, gears 135 and 136, shafts 137 'and 137', and gears139 'and 140.

Make contact h2 closes a circuit through magnet 131 which shifts theplate 130 against the paper strip 129, causing the paper strip to befrictionally driven by the belt 132 into the space provided for it inthe jacket.

Make contact h3 closes a circuit through the pneumatic tube control 146to cause the pneumatic tubes 145 to open up the plates 2 and 3 of theparticular jacket then in the channel member 105, so that the jacket mayreceive the paper strip 129.

In the operation of the machine, the first jacket will appear in thefirst inspection position in front of the window 22 after the operatorhas depressed the clear key the second time. This jacket will 'be insuch a position that the reverse side of :the check is visible and theoperator can inspect it to see if the proper endorsement is present.After she has depressed the clear key 20 the third time, the secondjacket will appear in the Ifirst inspection window and the first jacketwill have Vrotated 180 on the holder 83 and will appear -in the sec--ond inspection position in the channel member 105. The rotation of theholder 83 will have reversed the position of the check so that now theoperator can inspect the face of the first check in the first jacket.The machine' will stop in this position until the operator takesappropriate action, giving her time to operate the encoding keys 19j andthe perforate key 21. The latter key causes the perforation of the paperlstrip 129V and .the severence ofthe strip and initiates the insertionofthe strip-through the jacket.v While moving into the jacket the codedinformation o'n the strip is read off by the photoelectric read 147 andthe information appears inv the windows 148, so that the operator maycompa-re what she has applied to the strip with the original informationon the face of the check. When the operator is satisfied that theinformation 'coded on the paper strip in the jacket is correct, shedepresses the clear key 20, whereupon the cycle is repeated: the secondjacket containing the second check appears in the second inspectionwindow 23, the third jacket containing the third check appears in thefirst inspection window 22. The operation is repeated until all thechecks have been inserted in jackets and the jackets piled up to formthe stack 159 at the rear of the machine.

While the invention has been described in connection with punching thecoded information upon a paper strip, it will lbe evident that othermeans of applying this information may be used, such means being wellknown in the art. For instance, the information may be embossed upon astrip or the information may be applied magnetically to the strip, ineither case the reading being done by well known means. Also the stripfor the indicia may be dispensed with and a portion of the jacket4provided with a magnetic coating upon which the indicia may bemagnetically imprinted.

While I have described above the principles of my invention inconnection with specific apparatus, it is to be clearly understood thatthis description is made only by way of example and not as a limitationto the scope of my invention, as set forth in the objects thereof and inthe accompanying claims.

What is claimed is: Y

l. Apparatus for processing documents comprising a jacket-loadingposition, means for feeding one jacket at a time to Ysaid jacket-loadingposition, means for feeding and delivering said documents one at a timeto said jacket-loadingV position, means for inserting said document intosaid jacket at said jacket-loading position, an inspection position fordisplaying said jacketed document, meansV for transporting said loadedjacket to said inspectionv position, means for earmarking said jacket torepresent information appearing on said document carried by said jacketand means for removing said loaded jacket from said inspection position.l

2. Apparatus for jacketing documents in preparation for automaticprocessing comprising means for holding a stack of jackets, ajacket-loading position, means for feeding one .jacket at a time fromsaid stack of jackets and delivering said jacket to said jacket-loadingposition, means for holding a batch of documents one of which is to beinserted in each said jacket, means for feeding and delivering saidydocuments one at a time-to said jacket-loading position, means -forinserting said document into a jacket fat said jacket-loading position,an inspection position for displaying said jacketed document, means fortransporting said loaded jacket to said inspection position, means ,forapplying coded indicia to said jacket representative ofl informationappearing on said document carried by said jacket, means for readingsaidcoded indicia, means `for visually displaying the information as read bysaid `last-mentioned means, and means for removing said jacket from saidinspection position.

3. Apparatus for jacketing documents in preparation for automaticprocessing comprising means for holding a plurality of jackets, ajacket-loading position, means for feeding one jacket at a time fromsaid plurality of jackets and delivering said jacket to saidjacket-loading position, means for .holdinga plurality of documents oneof which is to'be inserted in each said jacket, switch means forinitiating the operation of said jacket feeding means, means for feedingand delivering said documents one at a time to said jacket-loadingposition. means for inserting said documentinto a jacket at saidjacket-loading position, an inspection position for displaying saidjacketed document, Vmeans for transporting said Aloaded jacket to saidinspection position, operator controlled means for applying codedindicia to said jacket to represent informationappearing on sai-ddocument carried by said jacket, automatic means for sensing anddisplaying said coded indicia whereby an operator is able to compare itvwith Ithe information appearing on saidV document, and second meanscontrolled bylsaid switch means for removing said loaded jacket fromsaid inspection position.

4. Apparatus for jacketing documents in preparation for automaticprocessing comprising means for holding a plurality of jackets, ajacket-loading position, means for ifeeding lone jacket at a time fromsaid plurality of jackets and deliven'ngsaid jackett-o saidjacket-loading position, means for holding a plurality of documents oneof which` is to be inserted in each said jacket, means for feeding anddelivering said 4documents one at a time .to said jacket-loadingposition, means for inserting said document into a jacket at saidjacket-loading position, an inspection position for displaying saidjacketed documents, means for transporting said loaded jacket to saidinspection position, means for impressing coded indicia on a strip ofsheet material to represent information appearing -on said documentcarried by said jacket, means for inserting said strip into said jacketin said inspection position and manually-controlled means for removingsaid loaded jacket from said inspection position.

5. Apparatus for jacketing documents in preparation for automaticprocessing comprising means for holding a plurality of jackets, ajacket-loading position, means for feeding one jacket at a time fromsaid plurality of jacketsand delivering said jacket to saidjacket-loading position, means for holding a plurality of documents oneof which is to be inserted in each said jacket, means for feeding anddelivering said documents one at a time to said jacket-loading position,means for inserting said document into a jacket Vat said jacket-loadingposition, an inspection position for displaying said jacketed document,means for transporting said loaded jacket to said inspection position, acode punch device, keyboard con trolled means for actuating said codepunch device to punch coded indicia on a strip of sheet material torepresent informationappearing on said document carried by said jacket,means to apply said strip to said loaded jacket, and, means for removingsaid loaded jacket from said inspection position.

. 6. Apparatus for jacketing documents in preparation for automaticprocessing comprising means for holding a-plurality of jackets, ajacket-loading position, means for feeding one jacket ata time from saidplurality of jackets and delivering said jacket to said jacket-loadingposition, means forholding aplurality of documents one of which isl tobe inserted in each said jacket, means for feeding and delivering saiddocuments one at a time to said jacketloading position, means forinserting said document into a jacket at said jacket-loading position,an inspection position for' displaying said jacketed document, means fortransporting said loaded jacket to said inspection position,keycontrolled means for applying coded indicia to said jacket torepresent information appearing on said document carried by said jacket,sensing means for reading said coded indicia, means for visuallydisplaying the sensed indicia whereby an `operator is able to compare itwith the information appearing on said document, and operator controlledmeans for removing said loaded jacket from said inspection position. t Y

7. Apparatus for jacketing documents in preparation for automaticprocessing comprising means for holding a stack of jackets, ajacket-loading position, means for feeding 'one jacket at atime'fromrsaid stack of jackets and delivering said jacket to saidVjacket-loading position, means for Vholding ,a Ybatch Votrdocuments oneof which is to be inserted in each said jacket, means for feeding anddelivering said documents one at a time to said jacketloading position,means for inserting said document into a jacket at said jacket-loadingposition, a rst inspection position, a second inspection position, meansfor transporting said loaded jacket to said first inspection positionfor displaying one side of said document, means for transporting saidloaded jacket to said second inspection position for displaying'thereverse side of said document and means for removing said jacket fromsaid second nspection position.

8. Apparatus for jacketing documents in preparation for automaticprocessing comprising means for holding a stackof jackets, ajacket-loading position, means for feeding one jacket at a time anddelivering said jacket to said jacket-loading position, means forholding a batch of documents one of which is to be inserted in each saidjacket, means for feeding and delivering said documents one at a time tosaid jacket-loading position, means for inserting said document into ajacket at said jacket-loading position, a first inspection position, asecond inspection position, means for transporting said loaded jacket tosaid first inspection position for displaying one side of said document,means for transporting said loaded jacket to said second inspectionposition for displaying the reverse side of said document, means forapplying coded indicia in said second inspection position to said jacketrepresentative of information appearing on said document carried by saidjacket, and means for removing said jacket from said second inspectionposition.

9. Apparatus for jacketing documents in preparation for automaticprocessing comprising means for holding a stack of jackets, ajacket-loading position, manually operable means for feeding one jacketat a time from said stack of jackets and delivering said jacket to saidjacket-loading position, means for holding a batch of documents one ofwhich is to be inserted in each said jacket, automatic means controlledby said jacket feeding means for feeding and delivering said documentsone at a time to said jacket-loading position and for inserting saiddocument into said jacket at said jacket-loading position, an inspectionposition for displaying said jacketed document, means controlled by saidmanually operable means for transporting said loaded jacket to saidinspection position, key-operated means for applying coded indicia tosaid jacket representative of information appearing on said documentcarried by said jacket, and

' means controlled` by said manually operable means for transportingsaid jacket from said inspection position. l0. Apparatus for jacketingdocuments in preparation for automatic processing comprising means forholding a stack of jackets each comprising front and rear plate membersbetween which a document is adapted to be inserted, a jacket-loadingposition, means for feeding one jacket ata time from said stack ofjackets and delivering said jacket to said jacket-loading position,means for holding a batch of documents one of which is to be inserted ineach said jacket, means for feeding and delivering said documents one ata time to said jacketloading position, means for inserting said documentinto a jacket at said jacket-loading position, means at saidjacket-loading position for separating the front and rear plates of saidjacket for facilitating insertion of said document therebetween, aninspection position for displaying said jacketed document, means fortransporting said loaded jacket to said inspection position, means forapplying coded indicia to said jacket representative of informationappearing on saiddocument carried by said jacket, and means for removingsaid jacket from said inspection position.

l1. Apparatus for jacketing documents in preparation for automaticprocessing comprising means for holding a stack of jackets eachcomprising front and rear plate members between whichV a document isadapted to be from said stack of jackets escasas inserted, ajacket-loading positionpmeans for feeding one jacket at a time from saidstack of jackets and delivering said jacket to said jacket-loadingposition, means for holding a batch of documents one of which is to beinserted in each said jacket, means for feeding and delivering saiddocuments one at a time to said jacket-loading position, means forinserting said document into a jacket at said jacket-loading position,means at said jacket-loading position for separating the front and rearplates of said jacket for facilitating insertion of said documenttherebetween, an inspection position for displaying said jacketeddocument, means for transporting said loaded jacket to said inspectionposition, means for applying coded indicia to a strip of sheet materialrepresentative of information appearing on said document carried by saidjacket, means for inserting said strip into said jacket in saidinspection position, means at said inspection position for separatingthe front and rear plates of said jacket for facilitating insertion ofsaid strip and means for removing said jacket from said inspectionposition.

l2. Machine for jacketing documents in preparation for automaticprocessing comprising means for holding a plurality of jackets, ajacket-loading position, means for feeding one jacket at a time fromsaid plurality of jackets and delivering a jacket to said jacket-loadingposition, means for holding a plurality of documents one of which is tobe inserted in each said jacket, means for feeding and delivering saiddocuments one at a time to said jacket-loading position, means forinserting a document into a jacket at said jacket-loading position, aninspection position for displaying a jacketed document, means fortransporting a loaded jacket to said inspection position, codeapplication means, a keyboard, means controlled by said keyboard forsetting said code application means in accordance with indiciarepresenting information appearing on a document carried by said jacket,a key for initiating operation of said code application means for theapplication of said indicia to said jacket and a further key forinitiating the operation of a jacket feeding and loading cycle in themachine.

13. Apparatus for jacketing documents in preparation for mechanizedprocessing comprising a frame, means on said frame for holding acollection of jackets a jacketloading position on said frame, means forfeeding one jacket at a time from said collection of jackets anddelivering said jacket to said jacket-loading position, means on saidframe for holding a collection of documents, switch means for initiatingthe operation of said jacket feeding means, means controlled by saidjacket-feeding means for feeding one document at a time from saidcollection of documents and inserting said document in a jacket at saidjacket-loading position, an inspection position on said frame visiblefrom outside said apparatus, first means controlled by said switch meansfor moving a loaded jacket from said loading position to said inspectionposition, manually operable key means for applying indicia to saidjacket to represent information appearing on the document carried bysaid jacket, means controlled by said key means for reading saidindicia, means controlled by said reading means for displaying theindicia read from said jacket, whereby the information applied to saidjacket may be compared with that on said document, a receptacle in saidframe for receiving jackets, and second means controlled by said switchmeans for moving said jacket from said inspection position to saidreceptacle.

14. Apparatus for jacketing documents, as defined in claim 13, in whichthe switch means simultaneously initiates the operation of thejacket-feeding means, the operation of the rst jacket-moving means, andthe operation of the second jacket-moving means, and further comprisingindividual means, independent of said switch means, for stopping therespective jacket-feeding means and jacket-moving means at predeterminedrespective times after the initiation thereof.

15. Apparatus for jacketing documents in preparation for mechanizedprocessing comprising means for successively feeding jackets from acollection thereof, manually operable means for initiating the oprationof said feeding means, automatic means controlled by said jacket feedingmeans for successively removing documents from a collection thereof andinserting them into respective jackets, means controlled by saiddocument inserting means for positioning a jacket carrying a document ina first position for inspecting one side of said document, meansoperated by said manually operable means for shifting said jacket to aysecond position for inspecting the opposite side of said document,manually operable key means for applying information to a strip of sheetmaterial, means for inserting said strip into a jacket positioned insaid second position, means for reading off said information as saidstrip is inserted into said jacket, whereby the information on saidstrip may be compared with that on said document, and means controlledby said manually operable means for removing a jacket from said secondposition.

16. Apparatus for jacketing documents in preparation for mechanizedprocessing comprising a frame, means on said frame for holding acollection of jackets, a jacketloading position on said frame, means forfeeding one jacket at a time from said collection of jackets anddelivering said jacket to said jacket-loading position, means on saidframe for holding a collection of documents, switch means for initiatingthe operation of said jacket feeding and delivery means, meanscontrolled by said jacket feeding means for feeding one document at atime from said collection of documents and inserting said document in ajacket positioned at said loading position, a first inspection positionin said frame, first jacket moving means controlled by said switch meansfor moving said loaded jacket from said loading position to said rstinspection position with one side of said jacket visible from the frontof said apparatus, la second inspection position in said frame, secondjacket moving means controlled by said switch means for moving saidjacket from said first inspection position to said inspection positionand reversing the position of said jacket so that the other side isvisible from the front of said apparatus, a supply of sheet material,maually operable key means for applying indicia toa portion of saidsheet material to represent information appearing on the documentcarried by the jacket in said second inspection position and forsevering said portion fromrsaid supply, means operated by saidlast-mentioned means for inserting said portion into said jacket, meanscontrolled by said inserting means for automatically reading the indiciaon said portion of sheet material as it moves into said jacket, meanscontrolled by said reading means for displaying Ithe indicia read fromsaid portion of sheet'rnaterial, whereby the information applied to saidportion may be compared with that on said document, a receptacle in saidframe forreceiving jackets, and third jacket moving means controlled bysaid switch means for moving said jacket from said second inspectionposition to said receptacle.

17. `Apparatus for jacketing documents, as defined in claim 16, in whichthe switch means simultaneously initiates the operation of thejacket-feeding means, the operation of the first jacket-moving means,and the operation of the second jacket-moving means, and furthercomprising individual means, independent of said switch means, forstopping the respective jacket-feeding means and jacket-moving means atpredetermined respective times after the initiation thereof.

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